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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Ideological.
(b) Physiological.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Theological.

2. Where do the Cricks find the body of Freddie Parr?
(a) Hung from the rafters in the Cricks' barn.
(b) Slumped over the table at Jack Parr's house.
(c) Drifting along the canal at the Atkinson Lock.
(d) Sprawled in shrubbery by the side of the Ouse River Road.

3. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) Why?
(b) How?
(c) Who?
(d) When?

4. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?
(a) The pretty girls in the town were disdainful of him.
(b) The mud felt the same and eels swam in the pools.
(c) The army served the same ale the Atkinsons brewed in Gildsey.
(d) The men were silent and preferred to keep to themselves.

5. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?
(a) Nature.
(b) Their neighbor's son George.
(c) God.
(d) His brother Dick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom tells us that as a young teenager Mary liked to "experiment" with boys. Whom does he NOT suspect her of sleeping with?

2. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?

3. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?

4. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

5. Tom Crick's wife, Mary, has been sent to a mental institution. Why?

(see the answer key)

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